On Wednesday 21 January 2009 10:29, Jens Meiert wrote:
> > > > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-background/#the-background-positio
> > > > >n>
> > >
> > > just wonder how stable that suggestion is and if there's any
> > > "official" take?
> >
> > There's a CSS Working Group resolution on that syntax, and the
> > draft as a whole is winding down toward Last Call in the next week
> > or so, so it is indeed stable.
>
> Great, thanks Elika!
I can't resist playing Cassandra a bit here. I predict we're going to
regret this syntax :-(
I reluctantly accepted calc()[1] some time ago. It's very difficult for
the majority of CSS users, but at least it avoids having to learn
different syntaxes for each property (such as this one
for 'background-position'). And now we have a special syntax
for 'background-position' *and* calc()!
We will see 'bottom 10px' and 'calc(100% - 10px)' side be side and
people will have to learn both. And it won't be long before somebody
thinks that 'bottom calc(100% - 10px)' does something, too. (It
certainly does, but probably not what he expects.)
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-css3-values-20060919/#calc
Bert
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